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> Spreadsheets are better because as you say the owner is their job to maintain it. If you replace with an IT process the new "owner" is likely a below-average developer that proba…

> But what happened in Spain and Italy was a catastrophic disruption to normal life by any reasonable standard. I lived in Spain through the pandemic. I saw from my apartment the a…

> The candidates that are interesting to me have diverse and interesting lives, their resumes should reflect that. Doesn't your resume reflect that if it has that written down some…

> A boring looking resume thats like all the others might be good enough for SAP but would get filtered out my me immediately. I could see the point of that approach for a creativi…

> You can tell by not entering any PII into the site in the first place. That's not the definition of PII. At best, that covers a small subset of PII. PII means any information tha…

> The article provides no direct evidence of people starving, only that 'We cannot freely choose our recipes'. What? The article clearly describes how people in Shanghai are barred…

> How you can tell if the data you're collecting is PII? No. How can you tell, as a user of any random website, that the script your browser is running as part of that page you've …

> Keeping everything locked down has a huge human cost too. That really depends on what's your personal definition of "keeping everything locked down". European countries like Spai…

> They already know english for the job (...) You're somehow presuming that there is no functional difference between being a native speaker and knowing a language as second or thi…

> If it contains PII (...) How can you tell?

> Lambda isn't single threaded. You get a core for every gig of ram that you allocate up to 16GB. That's not exactly true. As per AWS, with AWS Lambda you only get a second core if…

> I have used swarm optimization methods that have consistently provided better solutions than alternatives for optimizations of solution spaces in alterst 3 different domains. Ben…

> AWS lambda has a bunch of python specific optimisations that make python the best candidate for lambdas (...) I don't believe there is any truth to this statement. The general gu…

>>I fully anticipate they will come back in fashion. It's not possible to predict fashions, but I seriously doubt that the whole evolutionary algorithms field will see a resurgence…

Oh I know a few. Evolution strategies, particle swarm optimization, ant colony optimization, etc, etc. They are a treasure trove of easily publishable papers, but frankly the whole…

> There was never any valid justification for the police to harass a man going for a stroll. Have you been living under a rock for the past two years? There was a pandemic killing …

> You've sorted people who disagree with you into the category of "not adults". Should they be able to vote? No, I'm the kind of person who is well aware that reaching adulthood is…

> Stop lying. I haven't posted any misinformation. You can literally listen to Dr. Gandhi's own words at the link I posted above. Again, google it up. You can't fake this one. You …

> Actually Sweden's numbers are quite good, better than many other EU countries which took more restrictive approaches. Reality does not agree with you. Sweden fared rather poorly …

> Case in point: communicating nuance is hard when no one wants to hear it! There is no nuance. The message couldn't be clearer: if you take the vaccine then the odds you'll die fr…

> Natural immunity works. It's settled science, and has been for some time. What exactly do you mean by "works"? I mean, it's well established that those who contract COVID and did…

> Have they? It's a horrible back and forth, not based on any evidence. (...) You're grossly misrepresenting the facts. If you take an objective look at recent history, you'll real…

> Even if this is true, the very fact that it was even an option that came up in discussion in Cabinet says a lot. Not really. Two years ago, when COVID started to spread outside C…

> Masks in general provide very little protection. I recommend you listen to the explanations by infectious disease experts Dr. Monica Gandhi and Dr. Michael Osterholm. (...) It li…